Win 98 Startup disk on a cd or usb card

Digital Surgeon · 01-14-2010, 07:23 PM

Hello,

I found the Microsoft Win XP Startup disks lack functionality.
I am looking for a way to do a Win 98 Startup disk on a cd or usb card. Since floppy drives are becoming obsolete and extremely problematic.

I am using this to rescue a broken system, that would get me to a dos prompt.

Does anybody have any info on this?

your help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

TB0ne · 01-14-2010, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Surgeon

Hello,

I found the Microsoft Win XP Startup disks lack functionality.
I am looking for a way to do a Win 98 Startup disk on a cd or usb card. Since floppy drives are becoming obsolete and extremely problematic.

I am using this to rescue a broken system, that would get me to a dos prompt.

Does anybody have any info on this?

They might, on a Windows forum. You do realize that this is Linuxquestions, right?

DragonSlayer48DX · 01-14-2010, 07:35 PM

Well, I do have some bad news... If you're trying to repair a WinXP install, you DO NOT want to use a Win98 boot disk. The file and filesystem tools are for the FAT32 filesystem and will corrupt the NTFS filesystem on the HDD. (or so says Microsoft)

The good news is that if you have an XP install CD, you have all the tools you need in the menu. Once it detects the installed version, it gives the options to repair filesystem errors and reinstall corrupt system files.

Hope this helps.

XavierP · 01-15-2010, 04:20 AM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in General and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

mostlyharmless · 01-15-2010, 01:51 PM

Quote:

I am looking for a way to do a Win 98 Startup disk on a cd or usb card. Since floppy drives are becoming obsolete and extremely problematic.

Can't disagree with the comments above, but if you do want to use your Win 98 floppy and are looking ahead to avoid the End of Floppy Drives, then use dd to make an image of the floppy. You'll be able to mount it and use it as a virtual floppy (ie. for Vbox or VMware etc.) in the future.

Something like dd if=/dev/fd0 of=win98bootdisk.img ought to work.

You can burn it to a CD or copy it to a USB if you want.

XavierP · 01-15-2010, 02:25 PM

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm may be of use

no2498 · 01-31-2010, 04:55 PM

win xp floppy's do not help a lot all 5 of them
the cd has all the help on it
if you do use the cd and reinstall
it does NOT take out the old log files from any other programs like the anti virus you had up at the time they have log files that will NOT let you get any updates you need to delete them all

now for the usb or what ever you chose it needs to start first
you need to go to setup only 1 is what you need to start this is just a look at NOT A HOW TO you decide how to do it
usb
cd
a/drive
hope this helps some